In my experience, and in the experience of my coworkers/contemporaries, our formal education taught us how to program which is distinct from which language we program in. For instance, my Java dev friend learned to program in C++ because that's what was being instructed. I was forced to learn ActionScript 2 and then was forced to migrate to ActionScript 3, because that's what was being taught. The experience of programming something and iterating on it was far more valuable than knowing a language like C++ or ActionScript.

Languages come and go, some faster than others, and you'll eventually get to a point where your personal preferences stop mattering as much as which language is best for the task at hand.

PHP is dead. Long live PHP.

Fucking hell. Teach me more money spells, wizard.

(I already know about Scotty Time, framing sexy upgrades as "tech debt reduction," and fending off trendy frameworks as "lacking maturity.")

It's more about the sauce than what you put it on.

Mostly nothing. The Unicode Consortium isn't run by the US government. Neither is ANSI nor IEEE. The IETF and ISO are international bodies technically headquartered in Switzerland. FIPS picks standards, it doesn't author them.

Congratulations, you're already living in a world where "smart people [are] working for other smart people."

Wait hang on...

did not blow up, it faded, with its oriental counterpart well-flourishing for 10 centuries after that

How long do you think a century is? Did you mean to say decade? Even then, the US wasn't really a global superpower until the 1940s. There are people still alive that remember the Dust Bowl. If your question is, "what happens to regulatory standards 100 years after the US is gone," I'm not sure what quality of answer you're expecting.

For someone who doesn't want "chud shit," you sure do leave some pretty huge doors open for it. Especially when you don't go into any detail of what these regulatory bodies do. It reminds me of 14 year olds loudly declaring "I don't want any drama..." before "...but I think Becky got mouth herpes from blowing Steve at band camp."

The customer was UniSuper, a $125B Superfund. It was not the confused Grandma in the thumbnail.

TLDR - Threads made Facebook-y decisions right out of the gate.

In sea of thieves, the noob skins either mean you're a total day one noob, or a fucking superpirate who's flag means death.

That might just be how it looks when you cram a foreign language into Google Translate for images

"Conflict-free Replicated Data Type."

I have played Pixar's Cars, Cars 2, and Cars 3 multiple times every single day for a month. Don't have kids.

I used to use Star Trek (2009) as white noise to fall asleep.

I keep falling asleep trying to catch up on episodes of Bob's Burgers.

My point being: they're probably not mainlining Adam Sandler.

Q. Let’s make a distinction between cell phone and smartphone. Which one do you think is more appropriate?

A. A non-smartphone, that is, a cell phone like the ones that today’s parents had when we were young and with which we made calls and sent text messages, was enough for us, and it did not cause addiction.

Text messaging was absolutely addicting, and had the distinction of being one of the very first forms of always-on, instant-access bullying. Osorio seems blind to the detrimental implications of her own experience.

Had they not influenced the propagation of insane bullshit, how many more Republicans would be dead right now?